North Lanarkshire Team Announcement - ICG Games 2015

The 18 athletes representing North Lanarkshire at the International Children’s Games (ICG) were unveiled last Thursday night at a reception and information evening for parents at Motherwell’s Alona Hotel.

The North Lanarkshire Team is:

Football – Nickly Laughlan (Coach)

James Miller – Braidhurst High School

Jon McCracken – Braidhurst High School

Tom Leighton – Braidhurst High School

Kenneth Barr – Braidhurst High School

Kyle Cunningham – Braidhurst High School

Lewis Gamble – Braidhurst High School

Tyler Tobin – Braidhurst High School

Leon McCann – Braidhurst High School

Swimming – Danny McGowan (Coach)

Duncan McKinney - Auchinloch

Mark Hill - Motherwell

Thomas Balfour – Holytown

Robyn Morrison – Cumbernauld

Tegan Kerr - Cumbernauld

Golf – John Kelly (Coach)

Greg Dalziel – Airdrie

Scott Thomson – Coatbridge

Athletics – Angela Murray (Coach)

Beth Tobin – Cumbernauld

Eilidh Hagerty – Coatbridge

Lucy Somerville – Muirhead/Chryston

The ICG’s is an International Olympic Committee-sanctioned annual event where children between the ages of 12 – 15 from cities/regions around the world, participate in a variety of sports and cultural activities.

The International Children's Games in 2013 was held in Windsor-Essex, Canada, followed by Lake Macquarie, Australia in 2014. This year, 2015 the ICG’s will be held in Alkmaar, Netherlands. Lanarkshire has a long association with the ICG’s having previously hosted the event in 2011.

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